The change fixes potential oops while accessing iomem on invalid address, if devm_ioremap_resource() fails due to some reason.
The devm_ioremap_resource() function returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL, which makes useless a following check for NULL. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <[email protected]> Fixes: 9ef4546cbd7e ("mailbox: Add support for ST's Mailbox IP") --- drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c index 2394cfe..a334db5 100644 --- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c +++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox-sti.c @@ -430,8 +430,8 @@ static int sti_mbox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); mdev->base = devm_ioremap_resource(&pdev->dev, res); - if (!mdev->base) - return -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(mdev->base)) + return PTR_ERR(mdev->base); ret = of_property_read_string(np, "mbox-name", &mdev->name); if (ret) -- 2.1.4
